How Diversity Ideology Corrupts American Education
The Social Contract, Volume 23, Number 2 (Winter 2013)
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In the weeks following Mitt Romney’s electoral defeat, Republicans worried at length that the failure indicated a growing cultural divide in which traditional values were being lost. It seemed that millions voted in favor of the free stuff handed out by the redistributionist administration, like the free Obama phones and near doubling of food stamps. Minorities did indeed vote for Obama in large majorities: Hispanics, 71 percent; Asians, 73 percent; blacks, 96 percent (including 100 percent in Philadelphia!).
Quick-fix remedies were proposed, in particular that Republicans should promote an illegal alien amnesty for millions of foreign lawbreakers that would prove conservatives’ friendliness toward diverse immigration.
If only it were that easy. A little surrender of American sovereignty will not begin to solve the cultural erosion, because the rot goes far deeper than can be remedied by a simple political deal. Traditional values and American history are condemned throughout popular culture, but nowhere more than in the public school system.
The neighborhood schoolhouse is often a little indoctrination center for the trendy ideals of diversity as the highest good, followed closely by the equality of outcome in society. American and immigrant kids alike both get the same dose of anti-American views that condemn capitalism, national sovereignty, and the idea of equality of individuals under law. ...
There have been instances of schools making kids dress up like Muslims and even recite Islamic prayers so students could learn about the culture from the inside out. In 2002, the Byron, California, schools directed 7th graders to live like Muslims for three weeks — kids were required to memorize Muslim prayers, fulfill the Five Pillars of Faith, and fast during lunch period to simulate fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. ...http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_2/tsc_23_2_walker.shtml